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Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a criticand scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and Germanthought. It displays the unusual combination of intellectual depth, scope, andphilosophical rigor that Adorno was able to bring to his subjects, whether he waswriting about astrology columns in Los Angeles newspapers, the special problems ofGerman academics immigrating to the United States during the Nazi years, or Hegel'sinfluence on Marx.In these essays, Adorno explores a variety of topics, ranging fromAldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kafka's The Castle to Jazz, Bach, Schoenberg, Proust, Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, museums, Spengler, and more. Hiswriting throughout is knowledgeable, witty, and at times archly opinionated, butrevealing a sensitivity to the political, cultural, economic, and aestheticconnections that lie beneath the surfaces of everyday life.Theodor W. Adorno(1903-1969) was a student of philosophy, musicology, psychology, and sociology atFrankfurt where he later became Professor of Philosophy and Sociology andCo-Director of the Frankfurt School. During the war years he lived in Oxford, in NewYork, and in Los Angeles, continuing to produce numerous books on music, literature, and culture.Prisms is included in the series, Studies in Contemporary German SocialThought, edited by Thomas McCarthy. Prisms Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund / McCarthy, Thomas / Verlag, Suhrkamp, MIT Press (MA)

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Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a critic and scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and German thought. It displays the unusual combination of intellectual depth, scope, and philosophical rigor that Adorno was able to bring to his subjects, whether he was writing about astrology columns in Los Angeles newspapers, the special problems of German academics immigrating to the United States during the Nazi years, or Hegel's influence on Marx.In these essays, Adorno explores a variety of topics, ranging from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kafka's The Castle to Jazz, Bach, Schoenberg, Proust, Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, museums, Spengler, and more. His writing throughout is knowledgeable, witty, and at times archly opinionated, but revealing a sensitivity to the political, cultural, economic, and aesthetic connections that lie beneath the surfaces of everyday life.Prisms is included in the series, Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy. anthropology,cultural,modern,philosophy,politics and social sciences Philosophy, The MIT Press

The titular description, ´prisms, ´ suits Adorno - a major thinker of facets and angles and revolutions - and the collection itself is an ideal introduction to his work. Prisms Buch (fremdspr.) Bücher>Fremdsprachige Bücher>Englische Bücher, Mit Press